My laptop (Acer Aspire M5-581TG, Windows 8.1 x64) had some bad sectors which I recovered by doing chkdsk /R. This showed that C:\Windows\system32\d3d11.dll had the bad sectors in it, so I renamed that ...

I'm was doing PA and recording at a medical conference this weekend but have hit distaster with corrupt data.
Was recording a .WAV file using a line into a Tascam DR-40 audio recorder. Recorded about ...

So I, being dumb, decided to open my history essay in emacs and tried to edit a word. So I removed a letter from my introduction, and I saved it. The next time I opened the file in word, it said my ...

My university network is terrible (around 1 Mb/s down) and has too much activity, so large files usually get corrupted when I try to download them. I've tried to download the same 2.8 GB file several ...

I really hope someone might be able to help. I have just saved my research data base as a macro-enabled file. The screen went grey and hence I closed the app. On reopening, the file can be seen, and ...

I have a damaged, password protected RAR archive. I've recovered it after the disk has been accidentally formatted.
It has correct size as it had before format, I can open it using WinRAR and enter ...

I have an old dying hard drive which I could not recover files from using TestDisk, so I instead used PhotoRec to scan the HDD to recover whatever files I can.
I ended up with a lot of Word documents ...

I have a text file from a legacy source which contains corrupted characters.
At first I thought the corruption was just gobbledygook, but it appears upon closer examination that some of the corrupted ...

For months, I have been trying to turn off the onscreen keyboard and I have yet to find actual Technical Support verses user instructions.
I'll make it simple for those who want to talk to me like a ...

I have a set of data, received in .csv format, in which I have a set of long UPRN numbers. I am involved in data matching processes related to new IER voting regulations.
When I open the .csv file the ...

I am using a A.mdb database. When connecting the database Microsoft automatically creates a .ldb file. Unfortunately my pc shutdown when connecting the database. As a result, after restarting the PC, ...

I have the important data from my computer backed up on a USB flash drive. I know I probably should have backed it up to DVDs or something as well, but unfortunately, I did not. My computer was having ...

Is there any tool which I can run on the PDFs archives (all directories) and finally it lists/identifies the corrupt/invalid PDFs?
I have hundreds of PDF files (related to documentation etc.) on my ...

I'm trying to track down a data corruption issue that occurs on reads in Win7x64 and am out of ideas on what to try next.
This originally surfaced when migrating ~2TB of data to a new home NAS; when ...

I use my external HDD to back up my files, by putting them into large archive files.
I have thousands of tiny files, and put them into archives of 500MB to 4.2GB in size, before sending them to the ...

I have a Windows 7 64-bit machine. I downloaded a (paid, legitimate) copy of Microsoft Office 2010 in ISO format. I followed the directions provided, first using 7-zip to unpack the ISO and then, when ...

User profile on a win7 64 Ultimate got corrupted (and windows would create a default fallback profile on each login).
I created a new profile (an administer) and transfered exiting profile files into ...

I know this is a common problem but I can't find a Windows solution online.
My wife's computer was not working so we did a backup using Samsung Recovery Solution before doing a full restore as Basic ...

I have had in the recent weeks several cases of data corruption that occurred while copying files from one disk to another. Question is: what can be the cause, and how do I pinpoint it?
Some clues:
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I created a 20GB truecrypt container file. I use it to store videos. I store it on an external drive that is always connected to my Win7 daily PC, and only occasionally mount this container file with ...

A few weeks ago I suddenly had trouble with my PC (Windows XP Prof), it didn't start and said "A Disk Read Error Occured. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart". I tried a lot of things to overcome this but ...

I have dual boot win xp system (both OS win xp).My Windows XP showed windows\system32\config\"some file" to be missing or corrupt. Without giving a second thought I booted to my working second win xp, ...

Below is the error while I try to open the file:
Excel cannot open the file '1.xlsx' because the file format or the file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that ...

I keep getting this message on start up: "The procedure entry point StiCreateInstanceA could not be located in the dynamic link library STI.dll" (only on one of my user accounts on my computer). That ...

Yesterday while hibernating my Windows 7 computer, I got BSOD which complained about Creative sound card driver (ctoss2k.sys). I have been using this system for two years already and I haven't had any ...

due to current high price of hdds, I would like to switch from running RAID1 to JBOD + offsite backup (Backblaze). In theory it's a much better approach (if PC gets fried by lighting strike, I still ...